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Family TURDID^.— Thrushes, Etc. 

 Gcmts. 

 The young different from tlie adults, having the under parts spotted; tarsus for 

 the greater part of its length without transverse scutulse, being booted; bill somewhat 

 depressed, with a few reftal bristles; gonj-s about one-third the length of the com- 

 misure of the beak { Sub-family J/)v?c/<\s7///rt' ) ; inner toe about equal to the liind toe; 

 nostrils exposed and not hidden by bristles, and situated in a wide oval groove; culmen 

 not longer than the hind claw; second primarv longer than the secondaries; bill with 

 a distinct sub-terminal notch ( Page 59. ) Phaeor'nis. 



Genus PH^OR'NIS Sci.ater. 



FIC. I' 



V. OBSCURA. 



a. Uniform in color above, brown or hair-brown, with faint olive wash. 

 b. \'ery conspicuous buffy white mark on the outer tail feathers. 



C. Wing less than 4.00; feet light flesh-color; above, dull brown with 

 an olive cast, most pronounced on the middle of the rump and mantle; throat and lores 

 bluish grey; chest bluish ash or grey, sometimes mottled with blackish; abdomen 

 and under tail coverts buff-white; outer web of primaries with very dull brown edge; 

 inner web edged so as to form a dull buffy patch at base of feathers ; outer tail feathers 

 edged with whitish or fulvous on the inner web; ends of primary coverts blackish, 

 forming a patch. Yoiiiig: Feathers above, brown with broad blackish borders to the 

 tip, and before this a creamy buff, more or less triangular spot ; feathers of lower parts 

 ash}' brown at the base, then lighter cream color and broadly bordered with blackish 

 brown, these borders blackest and broadest on the breast (Rothschild). Length about 

 6.15, wing 3.35, tail 2.45, culmen .70, depth of bill .20, width of bill .22, tarsus 1.30, 

 toe .95, gonys .32. Hab. Kauai. 

 PI. XXVII., 6693. 116. P. palm'eri Rmirs. Puaiohi. 



